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Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views by chronial on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @01:57PM (#20107240)
I don't want to assume bad faith, but I have the impression that you are arguing just for the sake of arguing.

What about my statement is speculation?

• Youtube themselves state that they optimize for watch time.

• I don't want to go and search for papers on this, but I don't think the idea that people prefer to have their views validated instead of challenged is in any way controversial or speculation.

• It's also not speculation to state that people want to spend their time doing things that gives them positive emotions.

You clearly won't get "objective proof" on this, because the only way to actually proof this would be to do a formal study on it. And why would anyone to a study on such an obvious non-controversial topic?

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Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views by la_barba on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @02:53PM (#20107917)
Maybe it seems confrontational to you but, I don't think "how do you know this" is the same as "can you make a reasonable guess". I don't want to have a personal back and forth with you on this, because it doesn't serve any purpose.
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